You're costs to making it?
Hello Everyone,
To all who made it online as a professional airline pilot with big or small airline company, am just curious to know of you're costs? My first taste of flying will come next year when I take a trial flight hoping to embark on an exciting career. Francie |
My costs amounted to over £100k, but in retrospect that was unadvisably excessive.
A close friend of mine went from nothing to fATPL for £26,000. Such a low figure is rare, and I am jealous that he is now on an identical salary to me with TCX but with me having double the repayments!! :ugh: Ballpark figure is generally £30-50k, depending on where you go, what route you take, and who ultimately employs you. For instance, if you continue with this and ultimately come to RYR like I have you can add another £25k on top of that for your type rating/uniform/novelty pen etc etc etc. And get the privilege to work your first six months clearing just around £9k... All the best! A |
60k fATPL
20k Living costs approx 24k TR So probably just under 100k. But I did it the integrated way and this suited me. I don't regret it. Yes I know I could have done it cheaper. But I am now in the RHS having left my old career 22 months ago. |
Thanks for the responses I was guessing them kind of figures and suppose it is all about the €€€€€/££££££ at the end of the day.
Next year I plan to star flying from nothing and I already have 15k behind me to get on the road but I wanna make sure flying is for me before I start spending big, if so I'll relish getting stuck into my PPL:) |
Very good eire great to hear, no disrespect to the ones who knew they had no problem making it but its the likes of yourself I like to talk to. Yep correct and right I definately would be going the modular route also (if flying is for me of course), am just on the basic wage althoguh little or no bills thats why I can save buckets, and next year my company is facing a possible 3 day week which would suit me down to the ground to start out ya'know. Am gonna try my best to avoid debts at all costs because for one am a man who doesn't like to owe in any case.
Eire I don't actually get 'Flying In Ireland' mag do you actually have to order that off the site or can you get it off the shelf? Thanks, Francie |
I finished my ATPL exams just a month back but was interested to hear comments of working while studying for ATPLs. I tried this but found it incredibly hard (was working as a Project Manager). Doing a 5 day week with studying led me to the decission of dropping down to part time hours, working 3 days and studying for 2 extra days. Eventually even this wasn't enough (in my opinion) and I was lucky enough to get redundancy so could dedicate all my time to it.
Good luck though, if you can do it, it keeps the funds coming in.. As a reply to costs, I'm about 40hrs into my IR, have completed the ME and not started CPL yet. To date, this flight training has cost me about £12.5K Mark. |
ICAO CPL/ME/IR (Canada)
Licence conversion to JAA CPL/ME/IR 1000+ hours total time including 800hrs odd air taxi time £34K give or take a few quid. |
About 60K Euros including all flying, accomodation, air tickets(from and to India*6 times) and still dont have a Type Rating:ugh::ugh:
But I did accumulate about 40K miles on my Frequent Flyer Program :ok::ok::ok: |
And Forgot to mention, I am NOT going to pay for type rating:=:=:=
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Times have changed
Just to show what a bloody ripoff it has all become.
I did mine in 1998/9. Self improver with 1800hrs nearly all instructing. This meant I had to take enough instruction in order to pass the exams. I did the whole fATPL plus commercial GFT and IR in 5 months and including loss of salary came to 13k. The system has gone mad for anyone in a similar position. |
Yes eire could you please that would be greatly appreciated, i'll pm ya my address if you happne to find it thanks.
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Approximate all in costs (including various overpriced bits of plastic, accommodation, pot noodles and cans of Red Bull):
PPL: £6k Hours building: £10k ATPL written exams: £3k CPL/IR (including 10% extra for additional training / resit): £23.5k MCC: £2.5k Total: £45k Didn't pay for a type rating, starting salary around £25k. Will be a long, long time before I start to turn a profit on the investment, but getting rich was never the aim. |
Very good SXTY thats sounds like a well managed route, oh and when I start flying I won't be seeing it as a get rich thing it will be more for the love of flying which to my mind is better than sex.
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it will be more for the love of flying which to my mind is better than sex. |
The one thing they have in common is that it's not a bad thing to pull out early.
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Haha... classic!
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fATPL for just short of 30k going modular. Did a lot of hour building glider towing. Now if I could get just get that damned job! Currently swimming following a couple of interviews. Both jobs(if they ever happen!) will be bonded TR's.
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The one thing they have in common is that it's not a bad thing to pull out early. |
Finished March last year.
0-FATPL £32Kish + MCC £3000 Didn't pay for type rating. |
€75k to the school and roughly €5k-€8k on top of that for other things like food!
Looks like I have a pretty good chance of a "paid for TR" at the moment but if that doesn't come off then I will pay the €30k or so for a TR with FR. I've spent so much already it would be foolish to stop now! It's enough to make you :yuk: D8 |
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